Using Resources Flashcards
What do you need for rusting
- iron
- oxygen
- water
What’s sacrificial protection
Attaching a more reactive metal so the more reacted metal will get corroded
= protect iron from rusting
Adv and dis of purifying sea water by reverse osmosis
Can get fresh water from sea water
Expensive as uses a lot of energy
Why use alloys not pure metals
Alloys are harder and cheaper
Pure metals are softer
What’s corrosion
Chemical reaction
Eg rusting
Where does natural rubber come from
Sap of a tree
= produced using crude oil
Define finite
Can’t be replaced as quickly as they’re being used
Eg fossil fuels
How does chemistry help
We can use artificial fertilisers
= grow more food with the land available
Water that’s safe to drink
Describe drinking water
Must have low levels of dissolved salts
Eg sodium chloride
Can’t have high levels of microbes
Eg bacteria
Define potable water
Water that’s safe to drink
How to we collect rainwater
Collected from ground in aquifers and in lakes, rivers and reservoirs
Why do we use rainwater
Contains low levels of dissolved substances
How to produce potable water
- choose food source of fresh water
Eg a river - pass water through filter beds
= removes materials like leaves - water is sterilised to kill microbes
- in uk we use chlorine
Describe sea water
Very high levels of dissolved minerals
= potable water produced by desalination
Describe desalination
Reduces the levels of dissolved minerals down to an acceptable level for potable water
How to carry out desalination
Use distillation or reverse osmosis
= both reduce levels of dissolved minerals
= both require very large amounts of energy
= very expensive